You can't make a shot unless you take one. Keep shooting. Take a ball out to the hoop often and shoot for an hour or so. You will get better and better. Copy good shooters form and shots. Dribbling is hard to do for most kids, but you can learn to dribble like Steve Nash or Pistol Pete Maravich or Jason Kidd. Spending time with the basketball in your hands and dribbling with left and right hands everywhere you go will improve your confidence on the court. When on the court push yourself to dribble more before game time. Confidence in your sport usually comes from doing the things required by your sport over and over and over again thousands of times, and seeing improvements. Don't quit.

Stop wasting time and just go for it if you miss you miss everyone misses. If you make a bad pass just forget about it and go still the ball back dont stop ever, no one is perfect so keep getting better and forget what other people might think of you just play hard.

listen like air mcnair and jon said u jst got to keep shooting thats how u get ur confident up i use to b like dat but it all change u shoot u make sum u miss sum no one makes all n no one misses all keep practicein on ur shot so in game situation u have confident like o yea i practice this shot i kno its goin in and dats how i do it n remember u miss 100% of the shot u dont take

Just do it, i had dat fear before but i just did it till i got a hang of it!!!!! build ur confidence up go play at your rec or community center.

just say i can do it dont listen to the crowed just ignore them and get cose to the basket and shoot

me I've had this problem lots of times the only way to over come it is trust your self and know your strengths and weaknesses. the shot will come. everyone misses a shot, were not ray Allen yet lol. If your scared about dribbling then you just work on them till you feel comfortable enough to come down the court and shake someone.

It's important for you to at least give it a try first. So what if you miss the shot or dribble the ball wrong...even great athletes started the same way. The only difference is that they got people who trained and helped them out when they were starting, and that they persevered. Success, like winning...it's not like you wake up one day and it happened. You have to work your way into it by putting in dedication, passion and hardwork.
But hey, when all else fails just remember that there are other careers out there and it's free to dream as big as you want. Enjoy life and have fun...take it easy!
c",)VAN

YOU only miss the shots you don't take.. just practice you'll get better.. and you
can dribble you jsut need to practice til you got it down

just like everybody else said just keep shooting. if you never try then you'll always miss. when your at home you can do some drills like shooting in the same spot over n over again then trying to go back n keep shooting..... n another way for dribbling is going out n dribble... you can get better n better every second you have the ball....

feel confident in yourself and dont be nervous . keep working on your skills and your jumpshot and you will get better little by little .

It's like life - If your afraid to die you will never truly live. Practice shooting close to the rim and as your confidence increases start increasing the range of your shots. We all had to learn how to crawl, and walk before we could run with it. Good Luck.

everybody misses. Even the best NBA player may miss half of his shots. Just practice shooting and dribbling. As you get better, the confidence should come.

dont think about it

Quite and try something else, if you are not confident, then stop doing it. No
matter what anyone on here says, if you dont feel confident, all the words in the
world cant help you but you....So if your afraid of losing the ball then stop dribbling,
and if your afraid of shooting cause you think youre going to miss stop shooting.
Become and passer.......................... and watch as the world passes you by......

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
-Michael Jordan

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
-Michael Jordan

Shooting is mental as well is it physical
Good shooters miss a shot figure out what they did and they think im gonna make the next 1

bad shooters miss a shot and i dont know i f i should shoot any more

also muscle memory reps build muscle memory
Become a good shooter takes practice (alot)

As for dribbling i tell you how i became a good dribbler (im a post and im one of the best dribblers on my team) I was always going places with my basketball if i was gonna walk down to the store id grab my ball a dribble there

Most NBA stars are under 50% on their shots (Unless you play for the Magics!), and many lose the ball. Things just happen.